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Thinking about the collateral damage
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 633368" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>There is collateral damage, and it's challenged and changed us.</p><p></p><p>I thought so much about this thread.</p><p></p><p>Reputation, even and maybe most especially, husband and I lost our reputations with ourselves, with the man or woman we saw in the mirror each day.</p><p></p><p>We lost our reputations with one another, too. I can remember husband telling a therapist once that the worst thing about what was happening with difficult child daughter was that he could not protect her, or me, or then easy child son.</p><p></p><p>I felt so guilty. I was the mom at home. I was arrogant, so certain of myself and my role. Overnight it seemed, our lives were a shambles, and I didn't know what I'd done.</p><p></p><p>Though we had been so proud of ourselves a</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 633368, member: 17461"] There is collateral damage, and it's challenged and changed us. I thought so much about this thread. Reputation, even and maybe most especially, husband and I lost our reputations with ourselves, with the man or woman we saw in the mirror each day. We lost our reputations with one another, too. I can remember husband telling a therapist once that the worst thing about what was happening with difficult child daughter was that he could not protect her, or me, or then easy child son. I felt so guilty. I was the mom at home. I was arrogant, so certain of myself and my role. Overnight it seemed, our lives were a shambles, and I didn't know what I'd done. Though we had been so proud of ourselves a [/QUOTE]
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